[plug] Getting linux running ona beige g3 mac

[Quintin Lette]

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 16:02, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Quintin Lette wrote:
> > Any hints on getting a mac 7200/120 to boot from anything but harddisk
> > (ie floppy or cd) I intend to put debian on it as soon as I can.
> >
> > Bear with me, its my first ever experience with a mac, and I only got it
> > yesterday afternoon. :) It has Mac OS 7.5.3 if that makes any difference.
>
> Not a chance.. The only way to do it is with a MacOS init that will laod
> the kernel and boot linux from there.
> There is a great Mac PPC linux howto around somewhere.
> Pretty much download the base files from the debian archive, put them in
> a folder and run the bootloader. It will fire up the Mac PPC equivalent
> of the boot floppy and you can do the rest from there. You will need to
> leave a small MacOS partition to boot off though.
> Leave OS 7.5.3 on it, that's what I'm using here also.

Thanks for the info, I will go do some more research and put Linux in its 
place (any computer hardware I can get my hands on basically)

Quintin